Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Tim Duncan has been the epitome of steadiness & consistency his whole career. Congrats on passing me in block shots! G-luck in the Playoffs Twitter

KAD

06-02-12 05:25 AM

that's one class guy to another and lets not forget that Jabbar played entirely when the 1st round were 5 round series or this mark may have been much higher

Guapo

06-02-12 05:37 AM

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Originally Posted by KAD
(Post 1278308)

that's one class guy to another and lets not forget that Jabbar played entirely when the 1st round were 5 round series or this mark may have been much higher

Very good point... Except one might argue that the Lakers (and other teams Kareem was a member of) often played deeper into the playoffs.

It would be great to see how many post season games each played (to set that record).

Trey

06-02-12 06:48 AM

Kareem played 237 playoff games

Timmy - 187!

Hakeem only played 145!

according to NBA.com

Jose_TheGenius

06-02-12 12:11 PM

and he missed the 2000 playoffs. we probably would have been doing this 2 years ago or so?

JWest

06-02-12 03:08 PM

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Kareem played 237 playoff games

237 games that sucked...no surprise to me.

mckennaspur1

06-02-12 03:09 PM

Kareem has never been the most gracious guy in the world, so his acknowledgement is that much more significant.

You go, Timmy!

Uwe Blab

06-02-12 05:44 PM

Kareem was in the league 20 years and making the playoffs nearly every year while being the premier center and tallest guy on the court most of the time. Timmy should not have passed him already.

Mombear

06-02-12 05:50 PM

That's our Timmy Duncan! :celebrate!

And that's shocking and great to hear Kareem tweet that. :)

maldoror

06-02-12 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Uwe Blab
(Post 1278363)

Kareem was in the league 20 years and making the playoffs nearly every year while being the premier center and tallest guy on the court most of the time. Timmy should not have passed him already.

This is one of those asterisk records.

Blocked shots were not kept as a stat during the early part of Kareem's career. That was classy of Kareem to tweet like that knowing he had blocks that did not get credited during the most athletic portion of his career.

Wilt and Russell would be 1 and 2 but blocked shots were not recorded as an official stat when they played.

In his first NBA game, vs. the Knicks, Wilt scored 43 points, had 28 rebounds, and according to press reports, blocked 17 shots. Referees who officiated a lot of Chamberlain's and Russell's games said that both of them probably averaged at least 6-8 blocks per game over their careers. Both played 160+ playoff games so they probably had at least 900 blocks in the playoffs which is about double what the current record is.

clovisnmspurfan

06-03-12 04:26 PM

Lets not analyze this to death, Duncan probably played less minutes per game. As Bowen would say, "It is what it is".

grizzly_bexar

06-04-12 09:27 AM

Wow, something classy from Kareem!

td4mvp2k

03-06-13 02:08 PM

Coach Kareem?

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says he would be willing to coach the Milwaukee Bucks in the future.